THEY WHOM THIS MONUMENT COMMEMORATES WERE NUMBERED AMONG THOSE WHO AT THE CALL OF KING AND COUNTRY, LEFT ALL THAT WAS DEAR TO THEM, ENDURED HARDNESS, FACED DANGER, AND FINALLY PASSED OUT OF THE SIGHT OF MEN BY THE PATH OF DUTY AND SELF-SACRIFICE, GIVING UP THEIR OWN LIVES THAT OTHERS MIGHT LIVE IN FREEDOM. LET THOSE WHO COME AFTER SEE TO IT THAT THEIR NAMES BE NOT FORGOTTEN.
ALSO IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR COUNTRY 1939 – 1945
Sources used: Soldiers Died in the Great War CD-Rom Commonwealth War Graves Commission Ancestry National Archives of Australia National Archives, Royal Navy Service Records index
IN IMPERISHABLE MEMORY OF THE MEN OF EYAM WHO MADE THE SUPREME SACRIFICE IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 – 1919
THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE
CHARLES DRONFIELD
12.1.1915
SAMUEL NEEDHAM
26.12.1916
FRANK R. FROGGATT
3.2.1917
JOSEPH PURSEGLOVE
4.3.1917
FRED DANIEL
27.4.1917
HARRY BUXTON
2.5.1917
JOSEPH C. TWIGG
1.7.1917
JOHN E. MALTBY
20.7.1917
TOM FRITH
31.7.1917
GEORGE WEST
16.8.1917
ABRAHAM WHITE
20.9.1917
ARTHUR E. HEMSWORTH
20.9.1917
FREDERICK WEST
4.10.1917
THOMAS MALTBY
5.10.1917
HENRY HAWKSWORTH
19.11.1917
GEORGE E. LONGDEN
1.3.1918
SAMUEL REDFEARN
10.3.1918
JAMES HARLING
23.3.1918
JOSEPH WILSON
26.3.1918
LEONARD BULLARD
13.4.1918
ROBERT A. DANE
14.4.1918
WALTER TWIGG
21.10.1918
FRANCIS J. EYRE
11.11.1918
THEY WHOM THIS MONUMENT COMMEMORATES WERE NUMBERED AMONG THOSE WHO AT THE CALL OF KING AND COUNTRY, LEFT ALL THAT WAS DEAR TO THEM, ENDURED HARDNESS, FACED DANGER, AND FINALLY PASSED OUT OF THE SIGHT OF MEN BY THE PATH OF DUTY AND SELF-SACRIFICE, GIVING UP THEIR OWN LIVES THAT OTHERS MIGHT LIVE IN FREEDOM.
LET THOSE WHO COME AFTER SEE TO IT THAT THEIR NAMES BE NOT FORGOTTEN.
ALSO IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR COUNTRY 1939 – 1945
SYDNEY J. GOLDING
30.6.1940
JOSEPH MATHER
18.3.1943
HARRY WATKINS
5.3.1945
HENRY WALLER
24.11.1941
ALBERT J. DRONFIELD
1.5.1944
FRANK MAXTED
11.3.1945
Sources used:
Soldiers Died in the Great War CD-Rom
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Ancestry
National Archives of Australia
National Archives, Royal Navy Service Records index
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